Improvement in riding-plows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES KENNEDY, OF MINNESOTA CITY, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RIDING-FLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,380, dated November20, 1877; application filed I October 13, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES KENNEDY, of Minnesota City, in the county ofWinona and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Riding-Flows; and I do hereby declare that thefollowingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of my riding-plow. Fig. 2 is arear view, Fig.

3 is a plan view, and Fig. 4 is a detail view,

thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a sulky at tachment for plows, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents the beam, B the plow proper, and C G the handles, of anyplow constructed in any of the known and usual ways. The sulkyattachment is composed of two beams, D D, connected at their front ends,and having an axle, a, placed in suitable box or boxes on their undersides, a certain distance in front of their rear ends.

The axle a is stationary in, its boxes, and has one end straight toreceive the wheel E, while the other end of the axle is formedwith a jogor crank to receive the other wheel, E, and make the difference inheight with the wheel E, which runs in the furrows. The rear ends of thebeams D D are formed with longitudinal slots b b, and the'seat-supportsG are placed thereon, and fastened by bolts d d at any point on thebeams desired, allowing of the adjustment of the seat G baokwardforforward, according to the weight of the driver.

In the front of this attachment-that is to say, in the connection at thefront ends of the beams vD-is a swiveled hook, I, which is hooked into abar, H, fastened to the plow, by which means said sulky attachment canbe easily and quickly removed and attached again as required.

Upon the rear ends of the handles 0 O are attached two short arms, h h,which are secured upon a rod, L. This rod the driver takes hold. of foroperating the plow. The lower ends of the arms hare slotted or forked,forming, as it were, clamps to straddle the ends of the handles 0, andare fastened thereon by bolts 1', as shown. These arms can easily beadjusted as required upon the handles. The driver can regulate the depthof the plowing by simply moving his body backward or forward whilepassing over uneven places.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a plow, the sulky attachment, consisting of theslotted beamsD D, axle a, wheels E E, adjustable seat G,

swiveled hook I, and bar H, all substantiallyv as and for the purposesset forth.

' 2. The rod L, with arms hh, forked at their lower ends, formingclamps, and provided with bolt 6, in combination with the handles of aplow, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my 'namein the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES KENNEDY.

Witnesses J AGOB STORY, SAMUEL Fox.

